NRP Desk
Lucknow: A joint venture between the Indian and Russian governments, the BrahMos Aer ospace project will see its first stage of commissioning this Sunday. Initially, the unit is projected to manufacture the latest version of 300 supersonic BrahMos missiles annually.
Considered the “crowning jewel of the Defence Corridor in Uttar Pradesh, the BrahMos complex, located in Sarojini Nagar of the Corridor’s Lucknow node, is scheduled to be launched by Defence minister Rajnath Singh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Defence Corridor project on November 21, 2021 in Jhansi In the next five to seven years, missiles worth Rs 900 crore are expected to be manufactured in the Defence Corridor, whose development is being spear headed by Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA). BrahMos Aerospace was created as a joint venture between the Indian government’s DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization) and ‘JSC MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) of the Government of the Russian Federation.
